Climate Change and Environmental Security: For Whom the Discourse Shifts
Climate Change and Environmental Security: For Whom the Discourse Shifts
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气候变化和环境安全：话题为谁而转变
DOI：
10.1111/j.1528-3585.2009.00378.x
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发表时间：
2009
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
M. Betsill
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作者：
Nicole Detraz;M. Betsill
本文探讨了2007年4月联合国安全辩论的国际气候变化政治的气候变化的安全层面的影响。具体而言，我们的分析侧重于在过去关于气候变化的国际政治辩论中是否以及如何解决安全问题，并考虑强调气候相关冲突威胁的安全理事会辩论是否反映了话语的转变。我们详细阐述了关于环境与安全关系的两种一般性论述，我们称之为环境冲突和环境安全。使用内容和话语分析，我们表明，无论是历史上的气候变化辩论和最近的安全理事会辩论已告知环境安全话语，这意味着话语的转变并没有发生。最后，我们考虑未来的话语转向环境冲突的角度来看的可能性，并认为这种转变将适得其反的有效的全球应对气候变化的搜索。
This article explores the implications of the April 2007 United Nations Security debate on the security dimensions of a changing climate for international climate change politics. Specifically, our analysis focuses on whether and how security concerns have been addressed in past international political debates on climate change and considers whether the Security Council debate, which emphasized the threat of climate-related conflict, reflects a discursive shift. We elaborate on two general discourses on the relationship between environment and security, which we call environmental conflict and environmental security . Using content and discourse analysis, we demonstrate that both the historical climate change debate and the more recent Security Council debate have been informed by the environmental security discourse, meaning that a discursive shift has not taken place. We conclude by considering the possibility of a future discursive shift to the environmental conflict perspective and argue that such a shift would be counterproductive to the search for an effective global response to climate change.